CORE CAMHS Team Lead

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Chesterfield; Presencial; GBP 60.000 - 70.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced CAMHS leader to head the Core CAMHS Team, ensuring timely, safe and evidence-based care for children, young people and families. You will provide visible clinical leadership, supervise staff, and drive service improvement within a multidisciplinary framework.

You will oversee referrals, assessments, risk management and care planning, while fostering collaboration across health, social care, education and partner agencies

Formación

• Qualified professional in CAMHS
• Registered with regulatory body
• Post-basic CAMHS training
• Evidence of supervised training of trainees/students

Responsabilidades

• Support delivery of Core CAMHS with timely, safe, evidence-based care
• Provide clinical supervision and guidance to clinicians
• Promote multidisciplinary and multi-agency collaboration
• Contribute to service development and continuous improvement
• Manage referrals, assessments and risk planning within remit

Conocimientos

Communication skills

Legislation knowledge

Clinical leadership

Supervision

Audit & evaluation

Interagency collaboration

Educación

Qualified in CAMHS field (RN/SW)

Registration with regulatory body

Post-basic CAMHS training

Accredited supervision of trainees

Descripción del empleo

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

CORE CAMHS Team Lead

The closing date is 13 November 2026

We are looking for an experienced, compassionate and highly motivated clinician to join our Core Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) as a Core CAMHS Team Lead.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced CAMHS practitioner who is passionate about delivering high-quality, safe and effective mental health care for children, young people and their families, while providing visible, supportive and compassionate leadership to a multidisciplinary team.

The post holder will promote a positive, inclusive and psychologically safe team culture, where staff feel supported to develop professionally, contribute ideas, raise concerns and participate actively in improving the service.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The Core Team Lead will support the effective day-to-day delivery of Core CAMHS, ensuring children, young people and families receive timely, safe, compassionate and evidence-based care. As part of the CAMHS leadership team, the post holder will provide visible, supportive leadership and identify and upscale clinical and operational pressures, risks and gaps in provision.

Responsibilities include managing referrals and requests for intervention; undertaking assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions within professional competence; maintaining an appropriate clinical caseload; and supporting robust risk assessment, safeguarding, care planning and clinical decision-making. The post holder will provide clinical supervision, consultation and advice to clinicians and promote effective multidisciplinary and multi-agency working.

They will support staff through supervision, appraisal, workload management, sickness absence, annual leave, development and wellbeing, applying relevant organisational policies. The role will contribute to service development and continuous improvement, using clinical, workforce and operational information to inform decisions. The post holder will maintain effective communication with staff, families, partner agencies and the CAMHS Clinical Leadership Team.

About us

CAMHS is part of Chesterfield Royal Hospital. Our vision is to be a first-class provider of sustainable healthcare services, delivering the best possible care for our patients; and being a great place to work for our people. Our Proud to CARE philosophy supports this vision - and we all play a part in achieving it, by living up to the values we promise to our patients and each other.

We are passionate about sustainable transport and offer a cycle to work scheme, as well as an electric lease car scheme open to all employees. Our staff wellbeing service provides a huge range of benefits including staff counselling, access to free financial and legal advice and various support groups, fitness classes and even a staff choir! A staff wellbeing hub, including a free gym for staff has now opened on the main hospital site.

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.

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Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Professional qualification in a field relevant to child & adolescent mental health eg Registered Nurse, Social Work.
• Registration with an appropriate regulatory body.
• Post basic training in child & adolescent mental health
• Evidence of accredited qualification in the training/supervision of trainees/students.

Personal Attributes

• A car driver with a full current driving licence and own transport

Experience

• Relevant experience of working with children & families including work with child mental health needs.
• Experience of leadership/ coordination within a team or willingness to develop skills
• Experience of contributing to service development, particularly interagency developments.
• Experience of mental health assessments and the implementation of a wide range of therapeutic interventions in conjunction with other agencies
• Working knowledge of health, social services, education and the voluntary sector
• Ability to manage a caseload autonomously.
• Experience of working in CAMHS at a senior level.
• Experience of working in a multi-agency community setting offering consultation & liaison.
• Experience of working in a culturally diverse community
• Experience in working with a broad range of clinical and behavioural presentations
• Experience of service evaluation & audit.
• Experience of involving users & carers in service developments

Skills and Knowledge

• Qualities essential to clinical practice e.g. respect, genuineness and personal integrity
• Communication skills to enable a helping relationship
• Working knowledge of legislation relevant to CAMHS and mental health
• Knowledge of models of consultation and supervision
• Leading research projects undertaken within the service
• Clinical leadership skills.
• Experience in supervision, both as provider & recipient

Demonstrates our Proud to CARE Values

• Compassion, Ambition, Respect, Encouragement

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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